ESN member Madelaine Hron, assistant professor in the Department of English and Film at Wilfrid Lauriern University (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada), just announced the release of Translating Pain: Immigrant Suffering in Literature & Culture (University of Toronto Press, February 12, 2009). The book cover, the book title, and previous conversations with the author (extending back to her 2004-2005 post-doc at Carnegie Mellon University), led me to ask her whether she would be willing to share about her work with ESN. … [Read more...] about Translating Pain: Immigrant Suffering in Literature & Culture
Book recommendations
“There is probably no God” Ad Campaign
A Good Devil's Chaplain Richard Dawkins kicks off the Oracles of Science.* A good place to start, not just for alphabetical reasons. Why? [He's] one of the most effective science popularizers of all time, awarded recognition by both scientific and literary societies. His best-selling popular science books, like The Selfish Gene (1976) and The Blind Watchmaker (1986), have created vocabulary, examples, and arguments widely used in discourse about evolution. Passionately convinced that science rules out the … [Read more...] about “There is probably no God” Ad Campaign
Russia Licenses Faith Healers
This morning Russia Licenses Faith Healers topped my new mail. The one who forwarded it to me commented, They are soooo far ahead of us. … [Read more...] about Russia Licenses Faith Healers
Introducing the “Oracles of Science”
As a member of the Central Pennsylvania Forum for Religion and Science, I'm participating in an Oracles of Science: Celebrity Scientists versus God and Religion (Karl Giberson and Fr. Mariano Artigas, Oxford University Press, 2006) reading group. I thought some of you would have an interest in considering how the Oracles of Science (i.e., Richard Dawkins, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan, Steven Weinberg, and Edward O. Wilson), influence contemporary understandings of reality, origins, … [Read more...] about Introducing the “Oracles of Science”
Advent Devotions
Yesterday I posted Favorite Books of 2008. Below are two which I'm reading alongside the Word of God as the people of God journey through Advent and Christmas. Do you have materials which you return to again and again to enable you to focus upon the meaning of the season in the midst of the end of the term, the holiday festivities, and the beginning of a new year? … [Read more...] about Advent Devotions